A Time and a Place
Helen Mort....there's a time and a place for That Sort of Thing (and it's definitely not here and it's definitely not now!). Creative provocations on poetry, place writing, the inappropriate, the out-of-context, the bizarre, the beautiful, the lost-and-found.
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Heron death invents poetry
In March 2028 in Wales, a man killed a heron to rescue a duckling it had just swallowed. He shot it with an air gun and extracted the young bird, which was still alive. He was, however, inconveniently left with a dead heron on his hands. Th...
Rest!
Here’s a new poem about rest-in-a-time-of-late-capitalism. There may be a sequel poem for you soon, one that considers the phenomenon of ‘resting bitch face’. But for now, ‘Rest!’.
I’ll sleep when I’m dead. Etc.
Rest!
How hard we work at...
Fake plastic watering heron
On decoy herons, boxing feints and false epiphany
In Vernon Watkins’ poem ‘The Heron’, an implacable stillness is admired:
The cloud-backed heron will not move:
He stares into the stream.
He stands unfaltering while the gulls...
'Your body' by Caroline Stancer
I’m thrilled to share Caroline Stancer’s poem ‘Your body’. I first worked with Caroline through Writing East Midlands and then through the postgraduate community at Manchester Metropolitan. Caroline’s work is creaturely, political, outward-...
Heron as flawed joy-flight
Ways of looking at a heron number god-knows-what
Heron, badly drawn by the author.
In Lord William Percy’s ‘Three Studies in Bird Character’, he describes a rare communal aerial display by a group of herons:
‘An individual returning fr...
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Poet, novelist, non-fiction writer published by Chatto & Windus and Ebury. Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and the Banff Grand Prize. Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. FRSL.
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